The Paymium team and I are very proud to announce the launch of Paytunia, our brand new Bitcoin lightweight wallet solution !

We designed it to be fast, simple and secure.

You can sign-up online at https://paytunia.com, directly from your Android phone or use an existing Bitcoin-Central.net account.

We will soon be launching our iPhone app on Apple's AppStore, in the meantime we'll be sending 30 beta invitations to install the application on your iOS device for free (your phone doesn't need to be jailbroken). Use a support ticket to request an invite. First come, first serve.

It is dead-easy to use, it doesn't target hardcore users, but a much broader audience, and it is fast.Also it will in a close future be tightly integrated with Instawallet in order to be as anonymous as you want it to be.

Our roadmap also has plans to reduce the gap between fiat and Bitcoin, we'll communicate about this in the next couple of months.

Are my bitcoins stored on my phone or on a server somewhere? Does this make a wallet.dat file on my phone, or am I making an online bank account with bitcoins in it?

Bitcoins are stored in Paytunia's hosted wallet, which contains only a small fraction of the deposits. Your phone is a lightweight client consuming our API, which is compatible with the Bitcoin-Central.net API.

There already exists an iOS app that act as a full Bitcoin node, but we think that's overkill given the limited storage amount and network connectivity of such an iPhone.

Paytunia does not require 1G+ free space, doesn't take more than a few seconds to get started with, and will notify you of balance updates whether you're on Wifi, 3G, or regular network. Oh, and it's gonna be free too !

Bitcoins are stored in Paytunia's hosted wallet, which contains only a small fraction of the deposits. Your phone is a lightweight client consuming our API, which is compatible with the Bitcoin-Central.net API.

Will there (eventually) be a website for me to send money from this wallet as well then?